# Famous Emacs users (2024-03-22)

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**Created:** [March 22, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/famous-emacs-users-2024-03-22/116 "2024-03-22T04:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/famous-emacs-users-2024-03-22/116/1 "2024-03-22T04:00:00Z")

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# This is an unordered list of famous Emacs users

- Richard Stallman ([rms](https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html))

- [Linus Torvalds](https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/torvalds/), the creator of the [Linux kernel](https://kernel.org/), uses the text editor [MicroEMACS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS)

- [Leslie Lamport](https://www.lamport.org) ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/emacsporn/comments/x6x7ys/leslie_lamport_writing_a_paper_with_emacs/))  

- Bjarne Stroustrup **does not** use Emacs. He uses “Unix, sam (a very simple text editor), and a good C++ compiler, of course.” And he [types on the Happy Hacking Keyboard 2 HHKB2](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4dsv9i/bjarne_stroustrup_creator_of_c_uses_hhkb/).